Summer

A Spiritual Biography of the Season

€ 24.09

Organized around themes of time and people`s response to it, a lush collection of essays, poems, and meditations by great writers explores the rich vibrancy of summer and its spiritual meanings. Original.

Taal / Language : English

Inhoudsopgave:

Preface

xiii

PART ONE: Play and Leisure

Recipe: Dr. Lehman`s Dandelion Wine

xviii

Introduction

3

A Prayer

7

RAY BRADBURY

From Dandelion Wine

9

RONNA N. WELSH

`Camp Food`

13

SCOTT CAIRNS

`Accepting Blood` and `Yellow`

17

JAMAICA KINCAID

`The Circling Hand` from Annie John

20

G.K. CHESTERTON

`A Piece of Chalk` from Tremendous Trifles

26

RICHARD JEFFERIES

`Meadow Thoughts` from The Life in the Fields

31

T`AO CH`IEN

`Reading The Book of Hills and Seas`

37

ANNE LAMOTT

`Altar` from Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

39

Psalm 100

45

PART TWO: Tillage and Cultivation

Recipe: Mixed Greens and Walnuts

46

Introduction

49

A Prayer

53

CHEUNG HSIEH, PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

A Gathering of Farming Poems

55

ELINORE PRUITT STEWART

`A Busy, Happy Summer` from Letters of a Woman Homesteader

59

GRETEL EHRLICH

`From a Sheepherder`s Notebook: Three Days` from The Solace of Open Spaces